libcom_err.so.3 question: ahem, a newbie question

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Andy Green wrote:

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> On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:32, John Hodrien wrote:
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> > Once you've got an RPM database that only loosely reflects what you've
> > actually got installed you'll get into this situation more and more.
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> Wow, I guess you never had to touch a .tar.gz, or a binary-only thing like 
> flash or nVidia...  or pull something from CVS and cook it to get a broken 
> thing working... Welcome To The Real World, Neo, where not everything you 
> need is packaged.

No you misunderstand what I meant.  If you work with tarballs that's fine, but
you don't have dependencies defined there.  Once you're faking things to keep
RPMS happy, it just ends up as a big quagmire.  It's fine mixing non-package
managed code, and package-managed code, but once you type --nodeps you should
always realise you're not doing it right (which is fine as long as you know
that).
 
> > Or maybe people just enjoy living in a world of pain?
> 
> I'm happy when I can get on with my work with a minimum of detours into 
> mysteries.  If a later RPM with a real .so.3 wants to crap on my symlink I'm 
> happy.

I just feel that you're creating detours into mysteries in the future.

jh

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